Reinstall your Raspberry over the Network

Sometimes you want to reinstall your Raspberry Pi without switching the SD-card or via remote since it is located on another physical location. Here is a solution to reinstall the operating system remotely.

2b. You can also pull the image direct from the Internet:

3. Reset the Raspberry:

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echob>/proc/sysrq-trigger

Important

There are many ways how to transfer an image over the network. The methods described here pull the image from a remote location. After the transfer process has been completed, you are still logged in. With other ways, if you are logged out, you are lost because you cannot log in any more…